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Articles by Ragip Zarakolu

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About Ragip Zarakolu

Ragip Zarakolu is the longtime director of the Belge Publishing House, which for more than three decades has challenged publishing taboos on subjects such as the Armenian Genocide and minority rights in Turkey. Zarakolu is also chair of the Freedom to Publish Committee of the Turkish Publishers Association, and a member of the Turkish PEN Center. More Posts

Zarakolu: An Urgent Call to Defend Righteous Azeris

February 13, 2013 // 28 Comments

Having a conscience is a distinctive moral quality of mankind. The conscientious, the honest, the righteous represent the true pride and honor of a country. But criminals wielding an axe never can! Eylisli Ekrem Eylisli, a writer in Azerbaijan who should have been the pride …

Zarakolu: The Armenian Genocide as a Case of Preventing Self-Determination

August 9, 2012 // 11 Comments

The official attitude on the Armenian Genocide and the systematic practice of ethnic cleansing in Anatolia has reached a new stage with the recent statement by Vecdi Gonul, the former Turkish minister of national defense, to the effect that had these tragic events not occurred, …